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Ukraine is a modern European country with a fully developed system of democratic institutions and information society (Webster 2002). Yet, being one of the largest post-Soviet countries, it inherited a number of complex geopolitical problems, which since 1991 have been constantly monitored by key international actors such as The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) and Human Rights Watch (see Ukraine 2020). Through this monitoring, large-scale political conflicts – such as the armed conflict in the Donbass region, the annexation of Crimea (2014) and the Ukraine/U.S. relationship – and their human rights implications have received extensive research and human rights coverage (see for example Pifer 2017; Menon & Rumer 2015; Grias 2016, as well as my own research on the topic Pasholok (Korolkova) 2013), while smaller case studies attract significantly less attention. Yet, it is these smaller cases, and in particular cases related to media and information society development, that interest me in this research. By giving a voice to civil society organisations and non-government social justice actors, this research explores the current state of information society in the country from the bottom up. It questions the state of information society in the country through exploring local civil society organisations, and in the process of evaluation produces a set of action points that may be needed to support the development of information society in Ukraine.

This chapter looks at Hromadske.TV – to the day the most popular Internet television station in Ukraine, registered as an NGO. It started its broadcast on 22 November 2013, the next day after the Ukrainian Government suspended preparation for signing the Ukraine EU Association letter, by a group of young independent journalists, and soon became the biggest eyewitness public platform of the political and social crisis that stroke Ukraine in 2013-2014. However after these events Hromadske.TV grew up into not only a political and informational recourse, but a broader platform to talk about all cultural and social issues at the time when it's most needed – when the country is still trying to build up its cultural and social identity. More importantly, this article explores the role of media in shaping this identity.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Mis‐Theories -- Chapter 1: Affirmative Imperfection Rhetoric and Aesthetics: A Genealogy -- Chapter 2: Post-Communication Theory: The Non-Dialogical -- Chapter 3: Miscommunication and Democratic Membership -- Chapter 4: There Is No "Error" in Techno-logics: A Radically Media-Archaeological Approach -- Part Two: Mis‐Sounds -- Chapter 5: Quiet in the Forest -- Chapter 6: The Guardians of the Possible -- Chapter 7: Communicatiing the Incommunicable: Formalism and Noise in Michel Serres -- Part Three: Mis‐Matters -- Chapter 8: Objects Mis-taken: Towards the Aesthetics of Displaced Materiality -- Chapter 9: Fai(lure): Encounter with the Unstable Medium in the Work of Art -- Chapter 10: A Relational Materialist Approach to Errant Media Systems: The Case of Internet Video Producers -- Chapter 11: Negotiating Two Models of Truth: Miscommunication, Aesthetics, and Democracy in Elle and Laruelle -- Part Four: Mis‐Happenings -- Chapter 12: Disastrous Communication: Walter Benjamin's "The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay -- Chapter 13: Accidental Recordings: Unintentional Media Aesthetics -- Chapter 14: Desert Media: Glitches, Breakdowns, and Media Arrhythmia in the Sahara -- Part Five: Mis‐Functions -- Chapter 15: The Error at the End of the Internet -- Chapter 16: From Bugs to Features: An Archaeology of Errors and/in/as Computer Games -- Chapter 17: We Interrupt This Program: On the Cultural Techniques of "Technical Difficulties -- Chapter 18: Glitches as Fictional (Mis)Communication -- Contributors -- Index.

The infrastructural component of Russia's scientific and technological development requires a significant update of the methodology for evaluating the relevant investment projects. The article covers the issue of simultaneous assessment of financial and economic efficiency of research infrastructure projects and justification of the need for government participation for successful implementation of such projects. The suggested methods and models are based on the transition from financial to economic indicators of the project through the adjustment of cash flows, identification of public effects significant for such projects (social, environmental, indirect, price, tax), and allocation of synergistic effects in their composition. These methods and models were tested for the innovative project of the Center for Collective Use "Experimental Catalyst Production", which was proposed by the Institute of Catalysis in 2018 within the framework of the Novosibirsk regional programme "Akademgorodok 2.0". The results show that the stimulation of investment in research infrastructure is justified by a significant excess of the project economic efficiency compared to its financial efficiency and it significantly depends on the choice of an adequate mechanism for government support